July 2014 - week 2

 

Dane (White Horse) is finishing up a seven month course

 

 



 

Jesse (Wisconsin) is shaping the bracing on the Acoustic he is building as part of the one year course

 

 

Stefan (Alberta) is back for a couple more months of building

 

Riley (British Columbia) is shaping bracing

 



Paul (British Columbia) is here with Darren (British Columbia) doing a custom One week Course in the repair department with Mike

 





 

 

Tea Time!!!

 



 

Gregory (Alberta) is here for his eighth time, this time doing the Buzz Feiten Course with Sigmund

 



 

Kennedy (Alberta) is spending two weeks of her summer holidays doing an introduction to building and repairs

 

 

Gavin (Alberta)is working on the binding for the Acoustic he is building

 



Live Sound on Stuart Island

 

Len (Instructor) Kerr and Phil (Live Sound Students) had quite an adventure

They barged the gear up to Stuart Island for a  3 day private function. They did live sound for three seperate bands with three seperate set ups, then they got a helicopter ride back home 

 

 

 

 

May 2014

 

 Jesse (Wisconsin) is working on the Rosette for the Acoustic he is building

 

 

 John (New Jersey) is making jigs for the Archtop he is building

 

 

Gavin (Alberta) is radiusing bracing for the Acoustic he is building as part of his One Year Master Program

 

 

 

Riley (British Columbia) is showing off some practice necks

 

 

Jesse (British Columbia) is making a bridge for the Acoustic he is building.

His next project - a 7 string

 

 

Alex (British Columbia) is in the repair department doing a repair to fix a buzzing problem

 

Luke (Alberta) is making a nut - he is doing a custom 2 week repair course 

 

Dane (White Horse) Is finishing his 8 string fretless Bass

Walnut body and Maple top

 

April 2014 - Week One

Al (British Columbia) is building this triple O - 12th fret join with Chocolate Mango Back and Sides with a Red Cedar Top

 



 

Al (British Columbia) is also finishing this Herringbone Dreadnaught

It has Mahogany Back and Sides with a Bear Claw spruce top

 

Jesse (British Columbia) is building a solid Sapele Mahogany Acoustic

 

 This is Jesse' Spalted Maple Burl for the Rosette he is working on

 

 

Jesse (Wisconsin) is shaping the final neck for the electric guitar he is building as part of the One Year Course

 

 

Gunnar (Iceland) is working on Practice neck #4 for the Solid body electric he is building

 

 

Gavin (Alberta) is finishing up the Acoustic he is building.

The back and Sides are Mahogany, a Spruce top and Maple Binding

 



John (New Jersey) is building a Mahogany Back and Sides and Spruce top Acoustic

 

Jason (Seattle) is starting his training in the repair department

 





 

Riley (British Columbia) is also starting his training with Mike Jarvis (Instructor) in the repair department

March 2014 - CNC

 

Mike (South Korea) has started a three month CNC course here at Summit